Bridge House Homeless Shelter

Vicki: When my daughter came here from New York, she came her all alone with three children; she didn't even have a driver's license. So it became necessary for her to move into a family shelter - the Bridge House, up in Plymouth.

She went in there in order to use the programs that they had to offer; to learn how to be a single mom, to learn interviewing skills and get herself out there on the job market. All these things I could not have helped her with if she was camping out in my living room. It really helped her push herself and get her ou into the working world. She found herself a job, and in a few months time was able to find her own appartment.

We discovered shortly after that move that she had metastizied cancer, which had gone to her lungs. We knew that meant that somewhere down the line her future would be cut short. In August, the doctors let us know that there was no further treatment for her.

Over the months that she's been here re-establishing her own life, and getting herself set up with the kids and getting a better home for them, she had been working long distance with the children's father. And they had resolved a lot of their issues, and he had come up in August to reunite with the family.

The Bridge House has continued to be an undying source of support for her.